U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported a 69 per cent drop in recent months in the number of encounters with migrants at the Canadian border in what it calls the Swanton Sector, which covers Vermont and portions of New York’s border with Quebec and Ontario.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on this threat to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products he would be raising prices for Americans and

Canada is considering retaliatory measures against the US as the country was urged to take seriously Trump's threats to impose tariffs on Canadian imports.